Eric’s going even darker this season — premiering June 16 on HBO — and Alexander tells HollywoodLife.com to expect some ‘nasty stuff.’

With humans closing in on them, the vampires of Bon Temps will resort to desperate measures on the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s True Blood– and it sounds like some of them may even be crossing over to the dark side! “[Eric’s] doing some evil stuff this year, some stuff that’s not so nice,” Alexander Skarsgardtold HollywoodLife.com on May 20 at Piaget’s screening of Fox Searchlight’s The East in NYC.

“I like them both,” he told us about ‘good’ Eric and ‘evil’ Eric. “It’s fun to go back and forth, you get to play around with both sides. It’s always more interesting than one extreme or the other … when you have both within, and it’s an internal struggle.”

Nordic & ‘Nasty’

We’ve seen Eric commit some pretty seedy acts — remember when he killed Talbot while having sex with him? — and Alexander promised there’s plenty more where that came from. Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,” he said Eric’s still going to be up to his old tricks.

“You’ll see this season he’s doing some pretty nasty stuff,” he told us. “It’s not all good.”

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HollywoodLifers, what do you think Alexander meant by ‘nasty stuff’? Are you hoping for a full-on evil Eric in season six? Drop a comment with your theories and predictions below!

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I’m intrigued to see what will bring the bad side out of Eric, and if it will last. During the wait to find out, I’ve been refreshing on previous True Blood seasons with DISH Anywhere.com. It’s great that I can stream shows to my laptop with all of the traveling I do for my job at DISH. My wait at the airport is always better when I get to watch shows.

Well, I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder. Eric has been bad and good, just as Bill has. Of course we all have our favorites. But to split hairs as to which bad boy is “badder” or bad in a “better” way, is kind of funny!